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2016JANUARYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Milt Jackson, 1923
2Sir Michael Tippett, 1905
3Victor Borge, 1909Stephen Stills, 1945
4Giovanni Pergolesi, 1710Lionel Newman, 1916
5 6Alexander Scriabin,1872Earl Scruggs, 1924
7Francis Poulenc, 1899Ulysses Simpson Kay, 1917Jean-Pierre Rampal,1922Tommy Johnson, 1935
8Lowell Mason, 1792Elvis Presley, 1935
9Joan Baez, 1941Dave Matthews, 1967
10Rod Stewart, 1945
11Reinhold Glière, 1875
12 13 14Albert Schweitzer, 1875Billy Butterfield, 1917
15Gene Krupa, 1909
16Ethel Merman, 1909Marilyn Horne, 1934
17Eartha Kitt, 1927
18Emmanuel Chabrier, 1841
19Janis Joplin, 1943Dolly Parton, 1946Robert Palmer, 1949
20Walter Piston, 1894
21Placido Domingo, 1941
22 23Muzio Clementi, 1752
24Norman Dello Joio, 1913Neil Diamond, 1941
25 26Stéphane Grappelli, 1908Eddie Van Halen, 1955
27Wolfgang AmadeusMozart, 1756Jerome Kern, 1885
28Arthur Rubinstein, 1887
29Leslie Bricusse, 1931
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31Franz Schubert, 1797Philip Glass, 1937Phil Collins, 1951
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2016FEBRUARYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Francesco Stradivari, 1671Victor Herbert, 1859James P. Johnson, 1894Renata Tebaldi, 1922
2Jascha Heifetz, 1901Graham Nash, 1942Shakira, 1977
3Felix Mendelssohn, 1809Luigi Dallapiccola, 1904
4Erich Leinsdorf, 1912
5 6Natalie Cole, 1950
7Eubie Blake, 1883Garth Brooks, 1962
8John Williams, 1932
9Alban Berg, 1885Carole King, 1942
10Leontyne Price, 1927
11Sergio Mendez, 1941
12Roy Harris, 1898
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14 15Michael Praetorius,1571Harold Arlen, 1905
16John Corigliano, 1938
17Arcangelo Corelli, 1653Alec Wilder, 1907
18Yoko Ono, 1933Teresa Jennings, 1956Karl Hitzemann, 1965
19Smokey Robinson, 1940
20Carl Czerny, 1791
21Léo Delibes, 1836Andrés Segovia, 1893
22 23George Frideric Handel, 1685
24Michel Legrand, 1932Rupert Holmes, 1947
25George Harrison, 1943
26Michael Bolton, 1954
27Enrico Caruso, 1873
28 29Gioacchino Rossini, 1792Jimmy Dorsey, 1904
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MARCHSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Frédéric Chopin, 1810Glenn Miller, 1904Harry Belafonte, 1927
2Bedrich Smetana, 1824Kurt Weill, 1900
3 4Antonio Vivaldi, 1678Mario Davidovsky,1934
5Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887
6Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944
7Maurice Ravel, 1875
8Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1714Alan Hovaness, 1911
9Samuel Barber, 1910
10 11Carl Ruggles, 1876Henry Cowell, 1897Bobby McFerrin, 1950
12Thomas Arne, 1710
13 14Georg PhilippTelemann, 1681Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804Quincy Jones, 1933
15 16Christa Ludwig, 1928
17Nat “King” Cole, 1917
18Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1844
19Max Reger, 1873
20 21Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685Modest Mussorgsky, 1839Marian McPartland, 1918
22Stephen Sondheim, 1930Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1948
23 24 25Arturo Toscanini, 1867Béla Bartók, 1881Aretha Franklin, 1942Elton John, 1947
26Pierre Boulez, 1925Diana Ross, 1944
27Ferde Grofé, 1892Sarah Vaughan, 1924Mstislav Rostropovich, 1927
28Rudolf Serkin, 1903
29William Walton, 1902Richard RodneyBennett, 1936
30 31Franz Joseph Haydn,1732
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APRILSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Ferruccio Busoni, 1866Sergei Rachmaninoff,1873
2Marvin Gaye, 1939
3 4Elmer Bernstein,1922
5Herbert von Karajan, 1908
6Gerry Mulligan, 1927André Previn, 1929Merle Haggard, 1937
7Billie Holiday, 1915
8 9
10Mandy Moore, 1984
11Joss Stone, 1987
12Imogen Holst, 1907Vince Gill, 1957
13 14Morton Subotnick, 1933
15Bessie Smith, 1894
16Henry Mancini, 1924
17 18Franz von Suppé, 1819Leopold Stokowski, 1882
19Dudley Moore, 1935
20Lionel Hampton, 1908Tito Puente, 1923Luther Vandross, 1951
21 22Sir Yehudi Menuhin, 1916Charles Mingus, 1922Michael Colgrass, 1932Glen Campbell, 1936
23Sergei Prokofiev, 1891Roy Orbison, 1936
24Joe Henderson, 1937John Williams (guitarist), 1941Barbra Streisand, 1942
25Ella Fitzgerald, 1917Albert King, 1923
26 27 28 29Wallingford Riegger, 1885Edward KennedyEllington, 1899Zubin Mehta, 1936
30Franz Lehár, 1870Robert Shaw, 1916Willie Nelson, 1933
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MAYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Kate Smith, 1909
2Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660Lorenz Hart, 1895
3Bing Crosby, 1903Pete Seeger, 1919James Brown, 1933
4Maynard Ferguson, 1928
5 6 7Johannes Brahms, 1833Peter IlyichTchaikovsky, 1840
8Louis Gottschalk, 1829
9Billy Joel, 1949
10Milton Babbitt, 1916
11Irving Berlin, 1888
12Jules Massenet, 1842Gabriel Fauré, 1845
13Sir Arthur Sullivan,1842Gil Evans, 1912Stevie Wonder, 1950
14Otto Klemperer, 1885
15Arthur Berger, 1912
16Woody Herman, 1913Janet Jackson, 1966
17Erik Satie, 1866Peter Mennin, 1923
18 19 20 21Thomas “Fats” Waller, 1904
22Richard Wagner, 1813Sean Gill, 1976
23 24Bob Dylan, 1941
25Beverly Sills, 1929
26Miles Davis, 1926
27Thea Musgrave, 1928Mike Wilson, 1957
28György Ligeti, 1923
29Isaac Albéniz, 1860Eric Korngold, 1897Yannis Xenakis, 1922
30Benny Goodman, 1909
31Peter Yarrow, 1938
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2016JUNESunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Mikhail Glinka, 1804
2Edward Elgar, 1857
3 4
5 6Aram Khatchaturian, 1903Vincent Persichetti, 1915
7George Szell, 1897
8Tomaso Albinoni, 1671Robert Schumann, 1810
9Carl Nielsen, 1865Cole Porter, 1891Les Paul, 1915Charles Wuorinen, 1938
10Frederick Loewe, 1901Judy Garland, 1922
11Richard Strauss, 1864
12Chick Corea, 1941
13Carlos Chávez, 1899Donald Riggio, 1926
14 15Edvard Grieg, 1843Otto Luening, 1900Errol Garner, 1921
16 17Charles Gounod, 1818Igor Stravinsky, 1882
18Sammy Cahn, 1913Paul McCartney, 1942
19 20Jacques Offenbach, 1819Lionel Richie, 1949
21 22 23 24Harry Partch, 1901
25Carly Simon, 1945
26Jacob Druckman, 1928
27 28Richard Rodgers, 1902
29Leroy Anderson, 1908Bernard Herrmann, 1911
30Lena Horne, 1917
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2016JULYSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899
2Christoph W. von Gluck, 1714Frederick Fennell, 1914
3Leos Janácek, 1854Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1901Pete Fountain, 1930
4* William Byrd, 1623 (date of death)Stephen Collins Foster, 1826
5Wanda Landowska, 1879Gordon Jacob, 1895Paul Jennings, 1948
6 7Gustav Mahler, 1860Gian Carlo Menotti,1911Doc Severinsen, 1927Ringo Starr, 1940
8Percy Grainger, 1882
9Ottorino Respighi, 1879David Diamond, 1915
10Carl Orff, 1895Arlo Guthrie, 1947
11 12Van Cliburn, 1934
13Karl Erb, 1877
14Woody Guthrie, 1912
15Julian Bream, 1933Linda Ronstadt, 1946
16Pinchas Zukerman, 1948
17Peter Schickele, 1935P.D.Q. Bach, 1???Phoebe Snow, 1952
18 19 20Carlos Santana, 1947
21Isaac Stern, 1920
22 23
24Ernest Bloch, 1880Billy Taylor, 1921Peter Serkin, 1947
25 26Serge Koussevitsky,1874Mick Jagger, 1943
27 28 29Frank Loesser, 1910
30David Sanborn, 1945
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2016AUGUSTSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Lionel Bart, 1930Jerry Garcia, 1942
2Arthur Bliss, 1891
3Tony Bennett, 1926
4Louis Armstrong, 1901William Schuman, 1910
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7Karel Husa, 1921
8Cécile Chaminade, 1857
9 10Alexander Glazunov, 1865
11 12* Giovanni Gabrieli,1612 (date of death)
13John Ireland, 1879Kathleen Battle, 1948
14 15Jacques Ibert, 1890Lukas Foss, 1922Oscar Peterson, 1925
16Bill Evans, 1929
17 18Antonio Salieri, 1750
19 20
21Lili Boulanger, 1893William “Count” Basie, 1904
22Claude Debussy, 1862Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1928
23Ernst Krenek, 1900
24Stephen Paulus, 1949
25Leonard Bernstein, 1918
26Branford Marsalis, 1960
27Ann Murray, 1949
28Shania Twain, 1965
29Charlie Parker, 1920
30 31Itzhak Perlman, 1945
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1Johann Pachelbel, 1653Engelbert Humperdinck, 1854Seiji Ozawa, 1935Leonard Slatkin, 1944
2 3Nicolo Amati, 1596
4Anton Bruckner, 1824Darius Milhaud, 1892
5Johann Christian Bach, 1735Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1791Amy Beach, 1867John Cage, 1912
6 7Buddy Holly, 1936
8Anton Dvorak, 1841Patsy Cline, 1932
9Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583
10Jose Feliciano, 1945
11 12 13Clara Wieck Schumann, 1819Arnold Schoenberg, 1874Mel Torme, 1925
14Luigi Cherubini, 1760
15Bruno Walter, 1876Jessye Norman, 1945
16Nadia Boulanger, 1887Charlie Byrd, 1925B. B. King, 1925
17David Ellsworth, 1953John Riggio, 1968
18 19 20F. “Jelly Roll” Morton, 1885
21Gustav Holst, 1874
22 23John Coltrane, 1926Ray Charles, 1930Julio Iglesias, 1943Bruce Springsteen, 1949
24Fisher Tull, 1934
25Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1683Dimitri Shostakovich, 1906Glenn Gould, 1932
26George Gershwin, 1898
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2016OCTOBERSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Paul Dukas, 1865Vladimir Horowitz, 1904
2Sting (Gordon Sumner), 1951
3Gwen Stefani, 1969
4 5Bob Geldolf, 1951
6 7William Billings, 1746John Mellencamp, 1951Yo Yo Ma, 1955Michael W. Smith, 1957
8Heinrich Schütz, 1585
9Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835John Lennon, 1940
10Giuseppe Verdi, 1813Paul Creston, 1906Thelonious Monk, 1917
11Art Blakey, 1919
12Ralph VaughanWilliams, 1872Luciano Pavarotti, 1935
13Art Tatum, 1909
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16 17 18Chuck Berry, 1926Jacques Carpentier, 1933Wynton Marsalis, 1961
19 20Charles Ives, 1874Robert Craft, 1923
21George Solti, 1912J. B. “Dizzy” Gillespie, 1917Malcolm Arnold, 1921
22Franz Liszt, 1811
23Ned Rorem, 1923“Weird Al” Yankovic, 1959
24Luciano Berio, 1925George Crumb, 1929
25Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825Georges Bizet, 1838
26Domenico Scarlatti, 1685Mahalia Jackson, 1911
27Niccolo Paganini, 1782
28Howard Hanson, 1896
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2016NOVEMBERSunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1Anne Ellsworth, 1963
2Johnny Richards, 1911
3Vincenzo Bellini, 1801Vladimir Ussachevsky,1911
4 5Art Garfunkle, 1941
6Adolphe Sax, 1814John Philip Sousa, 1854Gus Kahn, 1886
7Joan Sutherland, 1926Joni Mitchell, 1943
8Judith Lang Zaimont, 1945 Bonnie Raitt, 1949
9 10François Couperin, 1668Ennio Morricone, 1928 Tim Rice, 1944
11 12Alexander Borodin, 1833Neil Young, 1945
13 14Leopold Mozart, 1719Johann Hummel, 1778Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1805Aaron Copland, 1900Wendy Carlos, 1939
15 16W. C. Handy, 1873Paul Hindemith, 1895
17David Amram, 1930
18Carl Maria von Weber,1786Ignace Jan Paderewski,1860Eugene Ormandy, 1899Johnny Mercer, 1909
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20 21 22Hoagy Carmichael, 1899Benjamin Britten, 1913Gunther Schuller, 1925
23Manuel de Falla, 1876Jerry Bock, 1928Krzysztof Penderecki,1933
24Scott Joplin, 1868
25Virgil Thomson, 1896Amy Grant, 1960
26Tina Turner, 1939
27 28Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632Randy Newman, 1943
29Gaetano Donizetti, 1797Billy Strayhorn, 1915
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1Bette Midler, 1945
2 3Anton von Webern, 1883Irving Fine, 1914
4Maria Callas, 1923
5José Carreras, 1946
6Dave Brubeck, 1920
7Pietro Mascagni, 1863Ernst Toch, 1887
8Jean Sibelius, 1865Mieczyslaw Weinberg, 1919James Galway, 1939
9Joshua Bell, 1967
10César Franck, 1822Olivier Messiaen, 1908Morton Gould, 1913
11Hector Berlioz, 1803Elliott Carter, 1908
12Frank Sinatra, 1915Dionne Warwick, 1940
13 14ChristopherParkening, 1947
15Stan Kenton, 1911
16Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770Zoltán Kodály, 1882
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18Antonio Stradivari, 1644Edward MacDowell, 1860
19Fritz Reiner, 1888
20John Harbison, 1938
21Frank Zappa, 1940Michael Tilson Thomas, 1944
22Giacomo Puccini, 1858Edgar Varese, 1883
23 24 Libby Larsen, 1950
25Orlando Gibbons, 1583Cab Calloway, 1907Jimmy Buffett, 1946Barbara Ann Mandrell, 1948
26Phil Spector, 1940
27 28Roger Sessions, 1896
29Pablo Casals, 1876
30Dmitri Kabalevsky, 1904
31Odetta Gordon, 1930John Denver, 1943